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President Lowell has outlined in his inaugural address three great policies to the accomplishment of which his administration is to be chiefly devoted: the adjustment of the elective system for the highest development of the individual student; the achievement of more harmonious relations between the College and the professional schools; and the restoration of class unity by a change in the social conditions of Freshman year. They are important questions, both to Harvard and to the cause of education throughout the country,--problems not to be solved in a day or a year, but worthy of a lifetime of earnest...
...Inaugural Address...
...most vital part, of education. Surely the essence of a liberal education consists in an attitude of mind, a familiarity with methods of thought, an ability to use information, rather than a memory stocked with facts, however valuable such a storehouse may be. In his farewell address to the alumni of Dartmouth President Tucker remarked that "the college is in the educational system to represent the spirit of amateur scholarship. College students are amateurs, not professionals." Or, as President Hadley is fond of putting it, "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things...
President Lowell has outlined in his inaugural address three great policies to the accomplishment of which his administration is to be chiefly devoted: the adjustment of the elective system for the highest development of the individual student; the achievement of more harmonious relations between the College and the professional schools; and the restoration of class unity by a change in the social conditions of Freshman year. They are important questions, both to Harvard and to the cause of education throughout the country,--problems not to be solved in a day or a year, but worthy of a lifetime of earnest...
...INAUGURAL CEREMONIES. Address by the President and the Conferring of Honorary Dergees, in the College Yard...